From Raised to Non-Raised Floor Solutions with a Glance to Liquid Cooling: Pioneering Cooling Solutions for Chilled Water Applications

The IT industry continues to develop larger data centers to meet capacity demands, while at the same time

taking steps to significantly improve their energy efficiency. Companies like Vertiv develop cooling solutions that help meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations’ needs. Cooling systems, and in particular, chilled water systems can play an important role in this evolution. 

For decades, the common wisdom has been that data center owners needed to build raised floor environments to enable more efficient cooling. For the past decade, however, colocation and hyperscale providers have been able to experience the reality of deploying non-raised floors solutions.  

At present, organizations are starting to adopt high-density racks for processing-intensive applications: cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency, or other high-performance computing (HPC) applications. Liquid cooling is thus becoming an inevitable bridge to answer these elevated heat loads.